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Showing 1 to 20 of 508 for “"watching"”.
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Watching you watching you
This thesis consists of four parts. Part one is a written dialogue in which I respond to the words and the thoughts of the photographer, Diane Arbus. Through responding to Arbus' thoughts, I had hoped to make clear my own thoughts and feelings about photography and the reasons why I photograph. …
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Logics of Attention: Watching and Not-Watching Film and Television in Everyday Life
… and indifference in how people may treat watching as a part of life to manage or cultivate. Ultimately, attending to issues of attention suggests the ongoing interrelationships involved in negotiating screenic versus non-screenic areas of life.
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Watching television with David Foster Wallace
… James in his research. James was bullied into watching commercials so that his father could assess their effects on him. As an adult, James begins to realize that his father still exerts a powerful influence over him, which is not restricted to his relationship with television. James's job at …
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Watching television with David Foster Wallace
… James in his research. James was bullied into watching commercials so that his father could assess their effects on him. As an adult, James begins to realize that his father still exerts a powerful influence over him, which is not restricted to his relationship with television. James's job at …
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Watching Humans and Detecting Their Abnormalities
In summary, an abnormality detection system, which involves in human detection, human tracking, and activity classification, is discussed in the dissertation. The current system can only work under familiar environments. Future work will aim at a general abnormality detection system for video …
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WATCHING YOU, WATCHING ME: REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE FANS AND FANDOM IN ACADEMIA, NEWS MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE
This project is a close examination of the representation of female participatory fandom, including scholarly work on fandom from the 1980s to the present, recent news media coverage of fan fiction, and a case study of fan responses to their own representation on the television series Supernatural. …
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Watching Storytelling: Visual Information in Oral Narratives
Oral narratives, though prolific, are increasingly being shared via some form of electronic mediation, and yet they are often glossed over in regard to the study of narrative. This study was designed to address the unique nature of oral narratives focusing on the information channels utilized by …
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Learning by Watching and Learning by Doing
When we are babies, we learn how to see by watching how the world changes and by interacting with it. Can we use these same signals to train vision models? In this thesis, we outline several works which use these paradigms as a basis for learning algorithms. First, we explore learning by watching …
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Resolved stellar populations: watching galaxy evolution in real time
One of the main issues in astrophysics is to understand how galaxies form and evolve. Deep photometric studies help the investigation of the evolution of resolved stellar contents of nearby systems. Hence the properties of these regions represent an archaeological record of the processes that shape …
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Watching the Watchdogs: Defining Journalists in the United States
… write letters to editors of these magazines are watching the watchdogs. This dissertation looks to those journalists' words to craft a nuanced understanding of the factors that shape the forces defining these journalists, their labor, and their pursuit of democratic ideals. Drawing from the …
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Fluorescent Tools for Watching Conformational Changes of Biological Molecules
Finally, we used a single molecule fluorescence quenching assay to study the timing of the neck linker conformational change that occurs as kinesin walks processively along a microtubule. We observed repetitive, alternating cycles of fluorescence and quenching as individual kinesin motors walked …
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Confiding History: Stories We Lived When No One Was Watching
<p>Military kids often get lost, overlooked, and shuffled from one location to the next while their parents are doing the high-pressure work of national defense--but in the meantime, these kids get a world-wide education and back-stage passes to significant world events. Additionally, military …
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Watching the bromance: Gender and subculture’s masquerade in contemporary China
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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Tracking objects and distinguishing their states by watching egocentric videos
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Measuring Usability by Watching Others With Directed Attention and Curated Instruction
… exists for remotely testing physical products. Watching Others Using Video (WOUV) is a potential remote testing solution, wherein people watch videos of another person using a product and then rate its usability. However, previous studies have shown that this method yields inflated usability …
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Ethnography of Indian diaspora women watching Bollywood cinema in South Africa
… focus on the occasion of consumption: the act of watching a film and the identifications that this act engenders. As well as examining the psychical experience of the spectator, feminist film theory also studies the representation of women in filmic discourse. Since this activity is by its nature …
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Seattle, Rhetorical Velocity, Identity Shift, Transnational Politics, and Materiality: Watching Rhetoric Bleed
… Shift, Transnational Politics, and Materiality: Watching Rhetoric Bleed</i> examines how the writings of Zapatista spokesperson Subcomandante Marcos shaped the philosophical underpinnings of the overall 1999 WTO protests, and more specifically, the philosophical underpinnings <i>and</i> the …
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Visualisations and interaction gestures : Enhancing the football watching experience via second screen
… as a form of companion device use to augment TV watching experience, is emerging as a practice. Research shows that a considerable proportion of TV football audiences use second screen when they watch football matches on TV. However, certain details regarding the usage of second screen and how …
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Visualisations and interaction gestures: enhancing the football watching experience via second screen
… as a form of companion device use to augment TV watching experience, is emerging as a practice. Research shows that a considerable proportion of TV football audiences use second screen when they watch football matches on TV. However, certain details regarding the usage of second screen and how …
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Investigating default mode network activation during external task switches and movie watching
The Default Mode Network (DMN), typically associated with internally-directed thought, shows increased activity during demanding external task switches between cognitive domains, as reported by Crittenden et al. (2015) and Smith et al. (2018), which challenges prevailing views of DMN function. What …
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